Buena Vista Social Club
Contributors: Ochoa, Eliades, performer; Ferrer, Ibrahim, 1927-2005, performer; Cooder, Ry, producer; González, Rubén, 1919-2003, performer; Buena Vista Social Club (Musical group)
Published: 2015
Language: spa
Format: [sound recording]
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Popular music; Jazz; Dance music; Spanish Songs
Notes: Reissue, originally released in 1997.

180 gram vinyl.

Program and biographical notes by Nick Gold and Nigel Williamson, and Spanish texts with English translations (20 pages : illustrations) included.

Produced by Ry Cooder.

Buena Vista Social Club (Compay Segundo vocals, guitar, congas ; Eliades Ochoa, vocals, guitar ; Ibrahim Ferrer, vocals, bongos, conga, clave ; Ry Cooder, guitars, oud, bolon, mbira, percussion ; Rubén González, piano) ; with additional musicians (Omara Portuondo, vocals ; Juan de Marcos González, conductor, guiro, background vocals ; Julio Alberto Fernández, vocals, maracas ; Manuel "Puntillita" Licea, vocals, congas ; Benito Suárez Magana, guitar ; Barbarito Torres, laoud ; Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal, trumpet ; Orlando "Cachaíto" López, Salvador Repilado Labrada, bass ; Joachim Cooder, drums, udu drum, dumbeck, conga ; Alberto "Virgilio" Valdés, maracas, background vocals ; Luis Barzaga, vocals ; Carlos González, bongos, cowbell ; Julienne Oviedo Sánchez, timbales ; Lázaro Villa, güiro, conga).

Recorded at Egrem Studios, Havana, Cuba, March 1996.

Vinyl disc, double-sided; turntable required.

Sung in Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Chan chan -- (4:16); title: De camino a la vereda -- (5:03); title: Cuarto de Tula -- (7:27); title: Pueblo nuevo -- (6:05); title: Dos gardenias -- (3:02); title: Y tu que has hecho? -- (3:13); title: Veinte anos -- (3:29); title: Carretero -- (3:28); title: Candela -- (5:27); title: Amor de loca juventud -- (3:21); title: Orgullecida -- (3:18); title: Murmullo -- (3:50); title: Buena Vista Social Club -- (4:50); title: Bayamesa-- (2:54).